Sentences with phrase «early effort at reform»

One early effort at reform was a proposal from the University of New Orleans (UNO) in the summer of 2001 to create and oversee a new charter school district, converting 10 existing public schools to charters.

Earlier efforts at reform failed in each of the 2013 - 2017 legislative sessions.

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Imagine that all of our reform efforts prove successful, from initiatives to bolster the prenatal health of disadvantaged babies, to high - quality early - childhood experiences, to dramatic improvements in K - 12 education, to serious interventions and supports at the college level.

Gist's efforts to reform education prompted the mass firings earlier this year at Central Falls High School, where just 7 percent of 11th - graders tested proficient in math last fall.

All of this has to be considered within the state's failed efforts at pension reform earlier this year.

Recent ideas for reform have drawn on diverse sources, including the Carnegie Report, 6 as well as newly proposed recommendations for «best practices» in legal education7 and highly publicized accounts of changes in law school curricula at elite schools like Harvard.8 Like several earlier proposals, 9 these reform efforts concentrate on law schools» failure to deal systematically with training for legal practice, as well as on these schools» haphazard approach to teaching legal ethics.